Georgia Political News for April 24, 2012

Interesting results. I’ll leave the survey open for the time being to see if it changes over time, and will probably run the same survey several times between now and the election. It’s not “scientific,” it doesn’t screen voters and demographic data is minimal. I’m not even releasing the crosstabs today. But major organizations on both sides were aware of it, I can tell you that from the email and IP addresses of votes, and both sides the opportunity to have as many of their supporters vote as possible.

“Whoever does become the Republican nominee is going to have to run in Buckhead as somebody who’s got to strike a balance as somebody who is pro-Buckhead and whether or not they’re going to be pro- or anti-Milton County,” she said.

Republican leadership would like to carve out north Fulton to create a new county, Milton County, a proposal Stoner opposes. Creating that new county would leave Buckhead paying for more Fulton County expenses, Pike said.

“So it’s going to be very difficult to be pro-Milton County while the people in Buckhead do not want to be the major funding base for Fulton County,” she said.

Bruce Broadrick will seek the Republican nomination for House District 4, currently represented by Rep. Roger Williams (R), who is retiring. Dennis Mock and David Renz have previously announced their campaigns for the GOP nomination.

“Mr. Morgan has not properly reported this expenditure for the full page advertisement,” Wilkerson writes in the complaint, signed on Monday. “His lobbyist report covering this period was filed late, excluded the $2,500 plus cost of the ad, and has resulted in another late filing penalty for Mr. Morgan.”

Wilkerson goes on to report that Morgan already has ethics fines of more than $2,000 outstanding. Moreover, his employer, American Federation for Children, has not filed a disclosure report for the period ending March 31, he said.

“Mr. Morgan is in violation of reporting lobbying expenditures intended to both influence pending legislation as well as the election of a candidate,” Wilkerson writes.

“If I had not dropped out of the campaign, in all modesty, I would have sewn up the nomination,” Cain, a Republican, told The Daily Citizen on Monday after a fundraising luncheon for U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ranger, at the trade center. “I really believe that. I was the lead candidate for four weeks and every week, my lead was getting bigger and we hadn’t even had a primary yet. Because people were connecting with my message and I was moving away from all of them, that’s why someone dug up the dirty, gutter politics.”

“You might we tapping into the public will more through a referendum than through legislation. I don’t know that tapping into public will is a good thing,” he said. “… Our founders had utter contempt for democracy. You don’t find the term democracy anywhere in our founding documents because majority rule is just another form of tyranny.”